> Q: Is MSAA info even accessible on the Mac? > A: All information can be found if one knows how and where to look for it. MSAA data is attached to the controls in one of their object description fields. Finding the controls will give us the place to find the MSAA information which, in most cases is as valuable as, "button 1," "button 2," etc. but that's all one gets on Windows too and with a little poking around, we can find the location information which maybe something we can pull out of the browser when it renders the Flash object.
This is all quite hypothetical, I haven't opened up a debugger to try to find anything within a Flash object yet (before or after it's rendered) so this more of a thought experiment than anything else. cdh > CB > > Chris Hofstader wrote: >> >> Could it be possible, if we know what we're looking for, to find the MSAA >> information in a Flash object? It could give us the names and locations >> relative to the Flash window from which we could easily calculate the raw >> screen coordinates and provide a crufty facility for users to click buttons >> and such. >> >> cdh >> On Jan 26, 2010, at 12:58 PM, Chris Blouch wrote: >> >> >>> I don't know how much access the Flash object gives to external scripts so >>> you might hit similar roadblocks in Applescript. You can probably get >>> general infor about the entire flash object (height, width etc) but being >>> able to trigger internal actionscripts probably requires some glue code >>> inside the flash object. >>> >>> CB >>> >>> Yuma Antoine Decaux wrote: >>> >>>> Yep, there's got to be a callback between js and flash, and i don't know >>>> which part of the api is set to open on a per publication basis. >>>> >>>> I'm wondering if there isn't a way to access it differently, as in js firs >>>> extracting the labels, and calling applescript's OSAX which is the >>>> extended suite of commands, which then move the mouse cursor to the label >>>> called by js, then the user clicks. It's a bit GUI scripting, but that >>>> method might work since the mouse cursor can access flash buttons without >>>> the use of voice over, which in this method is just an external call >>>> inherent to the system. >>>> >>>> I might get my devver to check this out when he's got time. I myself don't >>>> have time right now. >>>> >>>> Cheers >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>> "MacVisionaries" group. >>> To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. >>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>> macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >>> For more options, visit this group at >>> http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >>> >>> >> >> > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
